Valuing volunteers
Volunteers are the life blood of the charitable sector. So how can we ensure we engage with and attract potential new volunteers, retain existing volunteers, and build volunteer advocacy?
Upcoming Webinars
26 June 2023, 10:30am – 12:30pm BST
Pitch-perfect Funding Applications
To maximise your chances of success it’s vital that any application for funding covers all the bases and is as close to perfection as you can make it.
Join Layla Moosavi, Associate Trainer, Directory of Social Change and Chris Pitt, Impact Director, Benefact Group, for advice on key considerations when approaching funding applications, as well as straightforward guidance on good practice in bid writing.
This session is a useful reminder for those who have some experience – successful or otherwise, as well as those at the starting line.
Future webinars
- Major event fundraising
- A practical introduction to social impact measurement
Previous Webinar recordings
Fundraising is friend-raising: Donor care and stewardship
Effective donor care and stewardship underpin successful fundraising efforts and is all about building long term relationships.
Cost of Living: Help and Hope
The current cost of living crisis is posing many problems for the charitable sector. In this recording discover how you can minimise the cost of giving crisis, what lights are on the horizon and what myths, truths and perceptions are informing views of the charity sector today.
Social Media Fundraising
Our recorded webinar is here to help you better understand the opportunities social media fundraising presents and give you some simple steps to take to get started.
Legacy Fundraising 101
Legacies (or gifts in Wills) are the fastest growing source of income for charities. Our recorded webinar with expert speaker, Richard Radcliffe, shares the simple steps your charity could take to get started with legacies.
Managing Fundraising Events
What does the cost-of-living crisis mean for fundraising events? Our recorded webinar can help you manage events efficiently ensuring you make the most of your time and investment.
Funding Applications: A Practical Guide
In this recorded ‘webinar workshop’, we will explore some key points you need to consider when approaching funders and writing/pitching to them. Layla Moosavi, DSC Associate trainer, will share good guidance and practice for writing funding applications and take you through a couple of practice exercises to help you get your pitch right.
Corporate Partnerships: What's hot and what's not?
Previous fundraising webinars highlighted the interest in corporate partnerships. In this recorded event, a panel of experts shared their insights on corporate support for charities, as well as answering your top questions.
Digital Fundraising; More questions than answers?
Watch our recorded Q&A digital fundraising webinar where your questions are answered by an expert panel. Previous fundraising webinars really highlighted the interest in digital fundraising and some of the questions charities have around this topic. Why and how being the broad questions, but there were many more challenging questions given to our panellists to answer.
Going digital
Many charities are keen to tap into digital opportunities both to raise money but also to maintain relationships with donors. With the chance to meet people face-to-face or hold fundraising events having been significantly reduced over recent times, digital fundraising is becoming even more important.
Your fundraising message in current times
Fundraising is ineffective when it’s a one-way process. To be successful, you need to understand the audience and communicate the right information to tap into the potential donor or supporter’s needs and motivations. Before asking for support, you need to understand the motivations of a potential donor or funder so that it’s a mutually beneficial experience to get the ‘yes’.
The fundraising sources
Support from individuals, corporates and grant-making bodies are just three key areas to source income for your charity.
The fundraising plan
A fundraising plan is a must to enable your organisation to have the confidence that it can generate income and run the services it provides.
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